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Talmudic nosebleed recipes (2)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Medical recipes 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.05 Medicine and pharmacology 05.05.07 Medical recipes	Keywords Jews medicine
Period No period specified	Channel Jewish philosophers and scholars

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The expression ‘mind, reasoning’ (ṭˁm dlyb) in this Talmudic recipe is a calque on the use of the term ṭēmu in Akkadian medicine, e.g. ‘if his mind alters’.

Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 69a:
For nosebleed … let (the healer) write for (the patient) thus: ‘(one’s) reasoning-faculty has been behexed, (one’s) reasoning faculty has been disturbed’.

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Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 69a

Bibliography

Geller 2000, 19	Geller, Mark J. “An Akkadian Vademecum in the Babylonian Talmud.” In: S. Kottek and M. Horstmanshoff (eds.). From Athens to Jerusalem. Medicine in Hellenized Jewish Lore and in Early Christian Literature. Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing 2000, 13-32.
Labat 1951, 22-37	Labat, R. Traité akkadien de diagnostics et pronostics médicaux. Paris: Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences, Leiden: E. J. Brill 1951.

Amar Annus

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